The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-02
NEWS OF The EEk


Penna., on the 18th inst, died on the
evening of the 23d. The rest of the
Injured are expected to recoye.
The summer residence of Professor
Gammell, at Newport, Rhode Stand,
was robbed of siverware and other
valuables on the morning of the 23d.
The robbers, before leaving. RECALLED
themselves with considerable milk
and wine"
The President OH the 23d, APP
pointed James Streakley, OF Greenville,
Penna., to be Commissioner for Alaska,
with residence at Wrangel, vice George
z. Ihrie, declined.
Matthew Gurnee. 60 years of age,
a wealthy citizen of Haverstraw, New
York, died on the 23d, of hydrophobia.
He was bitten while playing with u dog
about a month ago.
There Is a plague of grasshoppers
in Ottertail county, Minnesota, and 1t
s reported that they have destroyed
five thousand acres of grain and garden
crops around the town of Perham.
The family of DR.. T. Buck, in st.
Louis, were awakened on the evening
Of the 23d by a terrific explosion,
which nearly wrecked the house, do
ing damage to the extent of $1,000.
An examination showed that a dyna-
mite bomb had been placed on the sill
of the basement doorway and exploded.
Five Navajo Indians visited the trad
ing post of A. M. Barton, in Utah, IN
the 10Th instant, killed Barton and
plundered bis store. The wife and
family of the murdered man were not
molested. DIR. Edward Duggan, a
prominent physician of Brooklyn, was
! shot dead ON his doorstep on the after
noon of the oath by George Weidler.
The latter, when arrested, refused to
say why he shot the doctor, but rumor
points to his sister III connection with
the affair. Weidler is IS years of age
and married. The doctor was reputed
to be wealthy. He leaves two sons and
a daughter.
Near Longvlew, Texas, on the
22d, Frank Mcintyre. colored, aged 16
years, was carelessly handling his gun,
when it went off, and the load blew of
half the head of an infant sister in her
mothers lap, and wounded the mother
in the breast. The youths father had
died suddenly the day before. While a
young man and woman-the latter a
Miss Rosenthal-were riding IN a
wagon alongside the Atlantic Coast
Railroad. neal Raleigh, North Caro-
lima, on the evening of the 23d, the
horse became unmanageab!e and
backed up on the track before an adj
vancing train. The young man jumped
out, to better control the horse. and
the young woman jumped out. on the
side next the track and was caught and
killed by the train.
Twenty inmates of a boarding
house in Chicago were chlorOformed
and robbed on the 21st. The robbers
entered the rooms by means of pinchers
and false keys, and, after chloroform-
ing the sleeperS, robbed them. The
victims were mostly street car drivers
and conductors, and a few of them
awoke in time on the morning of the
22d. Several hundred dollars were
secured by the robbers.
Thomas Galbraith, of Mount
Union, Penna. who was lodged i'll the
jail at Huntingdon, on the goth, on
suspicion of being oue Of the Hawn
robbers, was released on the oath, he
having proved an ahbi. The other two
prisoners, it Is said, have been fully
identified. Anker, the wounded farmer,
was reported to be sinking On the 24th.
AT North Industry, in Stark
county, Ohio, on the afternoon of the
oath, Conrad Doll, aged 45 years, killed
his wife and stepsOn with a hatchet and
then fled. He married the woman six
months ago. The ~provocation fer the
crime was the finding on the oath of a
compromising letter to his wife from
another man.
ALFRED Blunt, wife murderer, was
hanged on the oath, in st. Louis.
Edward Sneed, convicted of the MUIR
der of a man named LOomis, with
whom he had a drunken quarrel, was
hanged on the oath at Independence,
Missouri.
"A fire broke out on the evening of
the oath in the Gould and Curry mine
at Virginia, Nevada. and some of the
men at work in that mine and in the
Best and Belcher mine we're impris-
Oned by the flames. Five dead miners
have been taken out, and mini others
remain imprisoned. The fire was ex-
tingulshdd on the afternoon of the 25th,
and it was hoped the rest of the im-
prlsoned miners could be got out alive.
Two men were killed and a third
was fatally injured by a Wabash ex-
press train while walking on the rail-
road track near Mexico, Missouri, on
the 25th. The boiler Of the Standard
Oil Refinery, at Lima, Ohio, exploded
on the 25th killing the engineer and in
hiring six other men,
The Dover Sentinel is responsible
for a report, based on ''letterS and
estimates from forty-eight growers" in
Delaware, that the peach crop there
has dw.ndled "untll there are not more
than ], 800. 200 baskets in sight.
"A fire in Louisville, Kentucky, on
the morning of the 25th, destroyed two
acres of buildings, covering the square
between Main and Market and Ninth
and Tenth streets, causing a loss esti-
mated at $500, 600. The buildings de-
stroyed were the tobacco warehouses of
Thomas H. Glover Il Co., Sawyer,
Wallace & Co. and b. NJ. Parish 4
Co., aud the boarding house of Mrs.
Annie Bender. A fire at Davten,
Washington Territory, on the oath,
caused a loss estimated at over $780,
600; insurance, $685. DOC. Congressman
George Vests freight house at Ballston
Spa, New York, was destroyed by fire
on the afternoon of the 25th. Loss,
$50, 600; insurance, SIT 900. A fire in
the Puck building, in New Yerk, on
the evening of the 25th, caused 1bout
$45, COO damage. Tie building was
occupied by several business firms, as
we'll as the Puck Company.
DIR. T. B. Dover, overcome will,
sorrow for the death OF his wife two
weeks before, blew out his brains in
Little Rock, Arkansas, on the evening"
of the oath. The body of Ernst Fls-
cher, an ex-detective, was found at the
foot Of his sons grave in a cemetery
! at Newark. New Jersey, on the ri